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According to Hungarian pediatrician Dr. Denes Molnar, fully 9% of obese children and adolescents already suffer from a premorbid condition known as metabolic syndrome. Among the most worrisome symptoms are changes in blood chemistry that can trigger future health problems. A substantial fraction of chubby kids, for example, have elevated...
Independence and Norfolk have not experienced opposition to their reforms, but that does not mean every school district is ready for change. Overcrowded classrooms, pinched budgets and teachers set in their ways are only a few of the obstacles. Julia Denes, assistant director of Yale's Bush Center of Child...
This is not Denes' first tilt with environmental art. In 1979 at Artpark, a cultural complex in Lewiston, N.Y., she sowed a rice field, wrapped chains around a grove of trees, and near by buried a time capsule containing 40 existential questions. Samples: "Which do you think will prove...
The Manhattan wheatfield has created its own environment. Says Denes: "We have praying mantises, spiders that change color to resemble the wheat-Day-Glo yellow and brown-fireflies and a sweet country smell." They also have a harvest of problems. The wheat contracted a blight called wheat smut, plus mildew...
Then what? "I'd like to have time to think about that," Denes says. One idea she favors is to turn her wheat into bread and distribute it to the poor. She has also received some 30 other suggestions, among them proposals to send the wheat to a needy...